Melanie Toye’s walking for health

Image by Olga Lobko from Pixabay Holidays are great! Fun, relaxing and sometimes even adventurous. And my holidays over the Christmas period were exactly that.  I know over Christmas every year, without fail, whether I am tiny or large, I put on two kilos. I also know it takes about two months to then lose it.  So guess my surprise when after my holidays, ready to start the New Year with my aim to lose the final 10 kilograms. Oh yes, my surprise. My surprise was I put on 5 kilograms over my fun holidays. Let me just say that again, 5 kilograms.  If I gained an extra two kilograms, I would have put half the weight on I had already lost. This was absolutely sad.  The other annoying factor is when I was my pre-holiday weight I actually felt like I was getting thinner. My face was thinner and my stomach not as round.  But now, my face is visually fatter and my stomach is much bigger and protruding out. Sigh. I can’t even hide it. I already wear those flowing dresse...

  Image by Sasin Tipchai from Pixabay So for me, I feel like I keep breaking my walking routines. I guess every day is filled with different aspects, which means I can’t always set a routine I just have to try and find time to walk and sometimes I just can’t walk that day due to other commitments.  However, I have worked out if I break up my walking into at least two segments, then if I can’t make one than at least I have done half the walking steps that I am wanting to do, rather than nothing at all.  What I haven’t decided yet is if I am going to wake up at 5:30am and lose thirty minutes of sleep and walk for thirty to sixty minutes pending on the commitments that day. Or wake up at 6am and start my day later with everything else. It’s a tricky one. But I need to choose and I need to do it every day so it becomes a routine.  A routine is what creates your goals being met.   I guess what I am trying to say, is flexibility is key. Maybe the routine is just...

Image by kalhh from Pixabay   So the New Year has started and welcome to it.  To be honest, I had my goals preset just before the New Year and when the New Year hit, I didn’t start straight away like I was expecting to.  So what are my goals and how am I going to achieve them?  Basically, this year I want to lose my remaining weight of 10 kilos. (I did put on 4 kilos over Christmas so chuck on that extra weight and I have to lose 14 kilos).  I have literally lost an extra 14 kilos previously just by walking. I didn’t change my eating habits, I just walked. It took a year because I only walked 10,000 steps every fortnight so I was only losing weight every fortnight. Not weekly.  Again, I feel this is pretty good considering I didn’t focus on eating only carrot sticks to lose weight.  So however you plan it, just note it the time to lose the weight may take longer. So do not get discouraged. Because, for me, once the weight is off, I am culling my bigge...

  Image sourced via: www.pixabay.com  So I am on holidays and it’s the week before Christmas and I have already put on half a kilo. I always put on two kilos over Christmas, even when I was thin, I would put on two kilos.  And yes, it always comes off in January. But when I am wanting to lose weight and then gaining weight from holidays, it’s really a not nice feeling. I haven’t been this big in at least a year. That’s the worst about being overweight, when you go up on the scales and it scares you because you said you would never be that weight again.  Now I have to lose extra weight ontop of the weight I already want to lose.  So since Christmas Day, on Christmas I just ate and barely walked steps and that is ok. I want to enjoy my day. And then Boxing Day, I made sure I walked and the next day. And now I feel back into my routine where I can walk each day and close to 10,000 steps a day. I feel better. I know my weight won’t go down immediately and may be not...